The problem is, if you just run this command, the result is not so human-friendly:

20090328134854.000000-240

To fix this up, we can apply the ConvertToDate method, which is actually a Common helper method (that has nothing to do with the Win32_Service WMI class). To do this I used /\/\o\/\/’s method of creating an "Empty" WMI class for this ([WMI]''):

([WMI]'').ConvertToDateTime()

Once we do this, we get a nice, human-friendly result:

March-28-09 1:48:54 PM

Happy OS Dating (…judging by the date on my system, it looks like it is time for a reimage), James Fielding

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